TIM MACMAHON
Dallas – After only 4 seconds of action in the return of Luka Daceic to Dallas, the first song broke out by asking for the immediate termination of the Director General of Mavericks, Nico Harrison, the man responsible for the exchange of generational talent with the Los Angeles Lakers.
“Fire Nico! Fire Nico!” Thousands of fans of the American Airlines Center Center chanted during the first dead ball of the Wednesday match.
It is a sentence that has often been heard in the Dallas region since one of the most shocking offers in the history of the NBA occurred before the midnight local period on February 1, while the songs broke out everywhere from the medieval time to the parades of Saint Patrick, as well as in a variety of sporting events. He has been shouted several times in Mavs’ home game since the sudden departure of Doncic, but never as often as when he returned to his former home arena bearing a Lakers uniform.
The song was stronger and lasted after Doncic left the match for the last time with 1:34 to do in the victory of the 112-97 Lakers. He had put the final touch on a performance of 45 points and had taken a fault so that Mavs fans could shower him with one more ovation. After that, the “Fire Nico!” The song echoed again throughout the arena.
“No comments,” said Mavs Power Anthony Davis striker, the centerpiece of the package that Dallas received in exchange for Donic. “I’m not talking about it.”
Harrison, who has not been available for journalists since he had been briefly speaking in Cleveland in the afternoon after the trade, stood stoically in a tunnel in the intermediate zone during the match and reacted to any of the songs.
Mavs players have done their best to ignore them.
“It was difficult because they did it when they were running free throws and they did it when we were turning free throws,” Daniel Gafford, the center of Mavs in Espn, told. “I sort of feeling that they were doing too much while we were turning free throws. But who do I say? I was really focused on the really setting.
“The guys talked about it on the sidelines. I am like, look, at the end of the day, the job has happened and the fans did not like it. So, they always try to face it, of course. Sometimes, the only way to deal with things if you do by communication. This is what they did this evening in the stands.”
Dallas Center Dereck Lively II, who exchanged dedicated jerseys with Dononic subsequently, insisted that the songs did not affect the Mavs.
“I feel like people just try to jump on the same train, but he’s not going to change,” Lively told Espn. “This is what they have obtained. If they try to jump the ship, it will be too late each time we start to succeed. It is therefore a question of making sure that we simply rely on each other. No matter what we hear. No matter what the outside noise is heard, we rely on each other.”
MAVS coach Jason Kidd rejected the question of whether the brilliant performance of Doncic aroused regrets on trade, saying that his work was “to train the players who are in this locker room”.
Kidd noted that MAV tend to better health as restrictions a few minutes are increasing for several basic players, including Davis, Lively and Gafford. Kidd said that the team’s only objective was to prepare to face the Sacramento Kings in the 9/10 game game of the Western Conference, which Dallas still has a chance to welcome.
“That’s all that worries us,” said Kidd. “Understanding emotion and all the attention on this game, this game is over. There is nothing that we can do. It does not come back as MAV. He is with the Lakers, so we have to move forward and that’s what we have done.”
